Week 4:
This was a very up and down week. Part of playing against incredibly bad players is that they'll sometimes hit the most ridiculous crap against you. But you just have to remember that you're crushing them in the long run. Tuesday night I was able to overcome a few bad beats to put up a nice $90 session. Thursday was just awful, I lost with a set 3 times (2 were outdrawn, 1 was to a higher set). I also had a two pair hand get counterfeited twice and ended up losing about $55 on the night.

Friday night I mixed things up with some $10 PLO and quickly got up $35. So I decided to take my first shot at $25PLO. I played pretty well but my sets and three pairs never seemed to fill up to beat their draws. The only hand I regret was shoving a set of nines on a 935TA board (he had 42 for the wheel). He did not play it like a set and I thought it was pretty unlikely that he had the 42 to complete the only straight on the board, but I was wrong. My short experiment at $25PLO wiped out the night's earlier winnings and then some. I switched to NLHE and promptly won everything back from the Friday night idiots plus a little extra.

Saturday was a great session in which I hit tons of sets and found lots of good tables. Profit of about $100. Overall I think I lost three stacks with KK vs AA this week, and twice it was against the same LAGtard in less than an hour on Sunday! Really annoying when they've shown that they'll call two other people's full stack all ins with 77 preflop, but when they call you they just happen to have bullets. Also had an especially painful loss with AA vs AT on a 55T5T board (we got it all in before the river T). Still, it's been a great month nonetheless and I can only hope to continue this pace over the next few. I'm about 600 VPPs from Goldstar with three days left to play in January, so barring something unforeseen I should get there.

Tonight I went to the bookstore and read Lyle Berman's PLO High section in Super System 2. Sadly it was the only PLO High material they had in the entire store, but at least I learned a thing or two about the game. One of these days I hope to run across Sam Farha's new Omaha book so I can check it out. I'm also eagerly awaiting Harrington's first cash game book which comes out in March.

BR: $1560